OBJ Exporter for Revit 2014

As
mentioned,
it would be nice to rewrite my OBJ exporter for Revit 2013 using the new Revit 2014 custom exporter framework.

However, a request already came in for a Revit 2014 version:

Question: Until now I have been using
Lumion for
visualisation.
It is fast and the result is OK.
However, I now discovered the
Octane renderer and
would like to try that as a visualisation tool instead.
Apparently, the only way to export a Revit model to Octane is via the OBJ file format.

Answer: In order to provide something immediately, I simply flat ported the Revit 2013 OBJ exporter to Revit 2014.
I also made use of the
DisableMismatchWarning utility
to fix the processor architecture mismatch warning MSB3270.

The current implementation thus still traverses all the Revit model elements one by one, retrieves their solids, exports the graphics face by face, and determines some, but not all, graphical attributes as described last year:

Here is my Moscow DevCamp
Revit 2014 API slide deck that
includes one slide for each sample to provide a quick first impression of each.

Let's close for today with something not directly API related:

BIM Boosting Booms Much More in Four Specific Countries

Cheers to Australia, Denmark, Netherlands and Sweden!

When I visited Harry Mattison in Boston in connection with the
Autodesk Tech Summit, he mentioned that his
Boost your BIM page
views had an extremely unbalanced distribution for different countries, and very kindly provided some numbers correlated with the total country population:

As you can see, the top four countries have 4, 5 and even up to almost 7 page views per 100000 population, whereas Canada has 2.5, the USA and UK well under 2, and the rest of the world well under 1.